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Comrades King Bruce Fordyce: How South Africa’s oldest race transcends sport and unites the nation
In this special episode of the BizNews Rugby Show, Rory Steyn sits down with South Africa's ultimate ultra-distance icon, Bruce Fordyce, at the Comrades Marathon Expo in Durban. The pair reflect on the evolution of rugby, tales from the road, unforgettable Madiba moments, and the legacy of Comrades legends like…
Adrian Gardiner: The visionary who pioneered rewilding at reserves in the Eastern Cape, isn’t done yet
For decades, Adrian Gardiner has led the charge in rewilding farm land in the Eastern Cape, but he’s still chasing bigger ambitions. His vision is to transform the province into a wildlife jewel, stretching from Plettenberg Bay to the Karoo. In this interview with BizNews about the newly released book…
Piet Croucamp: Ramaphosa fears Mantashe’s knock on the door…
The “embarrassment of being removed” is “foremost” in the thinking of President Cyril Ramaphosa. So says political analyst Piet Croucamp who deems the break between the president and African National Congress (ANC) Chair Gwede Mantashe as irreparable. “Mantashe was the person who knocked on Thabo Mbeki’s door to tell him…
Sean Peche meets Howard Marks - one of world’s top money managers shares key takeaways from his guru
Morningstar’s latest performance data puts Sean Peche’s Ranmore Fund in the top one percentile for virtually every performance period in the last five years. In this interview with BizNews editor Alec Hogg, the ace money manager shares insights from a lunchtime meeting last week with the investing guru who inspires…
BN Briefing: Trump bans 12 countries from US; Zuma on Shivambu; and Danny Jordaan’s grilling
In today’s BizNews Briefing, Bronwyn Nielsen reports on Donald Trump’s sweeping new travel ban and MK Party turbulence as Floyd Shivambu is redeployed to parliament amid party infighting. Julius Malema weighs in with scathing commentary. Meanwhile, Danny Jordaan is grilled in Parliament over football leadership failures, and Bloomberg explores looming…
Toby Chance: R2-billion lotteries corruption & the Economic Justice alternative to BEE
Corruption. Black Economic Empowerment. And that R100-billion Transformation Fund…These are topics being debated hotly on a daily basis in South Africa. In his latest interview with BizNews, Toby Chance, the Democratic Alliance (DA) spokesperson on Trade, Industry and Competition, speaks about corruption at the Lotteries Commission were whistleblowers were “really…
BN Briefing: ANC unyielding on race quotas; Fort Hare corruption; SA's flora wins big at RHS Chelsea
Alec Hogg unpacks the ANC’s push for strict race quotas in the workplace, with insights from Solidarity’s Connie Mulder and DA’s Toby Chance. The Fort Hare scandal escalates as whistleblowers are jailed for exposing corruption. Plus: South Africa claims gold at the Chelsea Flower Show, New Zealand attracts record immigration,…
Connie Mulder: Workplace quotas and economic chaos - ANC’s risky employment equity push
In this in-depth interview, Alec Hogg speaks with Connie Mulder, head of the Solidarity Research Institute, about the ANC’s latest employment equity regulations. Mulder explains how the government's racial targets for workplace demographics are not only impractical but potentially damaging to South Africa’s economy. He reveals the hidden costs of…
Grant Abbot: Corruption & capture & victimisation of whistleblowers at SA universities
Bad governance involving collusion between councils and management is enabling corruption and capture at some of South Africa’s historic universities. That is the charge from National Tertiary Education Union Secretary General Grant Abbott who says: “We've coined the term, you use the Corruption Mafia and that's a very good term…
BN Briefing: ANC's BEE double-down; O'Sullivan details deepening Mantengu saga; Musk’s xAI win
In this episode of the BizNews Briefing, Alec Hogg unpacks the ANC’s repeat failures on BEE and mining policy as debt and youth unemployment climb - with insights from DA MP James Lorimer. (Ret.) Colonel Chris Wyatt shares US fallout from Ramaphosa’s Oval Office debacle, and Paul O’Sullivan responds to…
(Ret.) Col Chris Wyatt: Farm murder “cover up”, refugee arrivals - and “consequences” warning to the GNU
In his latest interview with BizNews, US intelligence analyst, retired Colonel Chris Wyatt charges that the farm murder last week of a close friend's stepfather has been categorised as a house robbery instread of a farm attack. “This is why crime statistics in South Africa are not trustworthy…They cover this…
Paul O’Sullivan weighs on Moti, Mantengu and the R250m defamation suit: “all is not as it appears”
Ace corruption buster Paul O’Sullivan has taken a deep dive into the high-profile scrap involving JSE-listed mining group Mantengu - and reaches conclusions that are at odds with messages from the embattled company’s CEO Mike Miller. O’Sullivan explained his findings to BizNews editor Alec Hogg, including allegations that high-profile businessman…
BN Briefing: 2nd group of Afrikaner Refugees land in the US; Thabo Mbeki on tense US-SA relations
In today’s BizNews Briefing with Bronwyn Nielsen: A second group of Afrikaners quietly arrives in the US; Neil de Beer shares his views on the escalating exodus; economist Dawie Roodt responds to Ramaphosa’s renewed push for BEE; Thabo Mbeki reflects on SA–US relations; Ukraine strikes deep into Russia; and Trump…
The Sunday Show - Neil de Beer: SA is run by an “illegitimate government without a quorum”
In his latest hard-hitting Sunday Show with BizNews, Neil De Beer, the President of the United Independent Movement (UIM) , slams the way the African Congress (ANC) is operating without a national mandate in the Government of National Unity (GNU). “This government doesn't have a quorum. There's not a singular…
Evil or just thick? ANC doubles down on job-killing policies that earned world mining’s wooden spoon
As public consequences of the ANC’s destructive economic policies ratchet higher, Cyril Ramaphosa and his lackeys follow its bat-eared playbook - double down. The President’s economically incoherent ramblings in Parliament this week are mirrored in his party’s Mineral Resources Bill proposal that reinforces the idiocy which has driven the country…
Leon Kluge’s fynbos triumph at Chelsea - with foxes sipping rooibos
South Africa’s fynbos stole the show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, earning three prestigious awards with an unprecedented display of 25,000 stems of cut flowers. Leading the team in London was Leon Kluge, a renowned botanist and landscape designer with global accolades. Kluge told BizNews that the team -…
BizNews Rugby: Juan de Jongh and Rudy Paige ruck and roll through URC insights and career reflections
In this week’s BizNews Rugby Show, former Springboks Juan de Jongh and Rudy Paige join insider Rory Steyn and co-host Patrick Kidd for a lively, wide-ranging conversation on the upcoming URC quarterfinals and their remarkable rugby journeys - from small-town beginnings to the world stage. They unpack the strengths and…
Dawie Roodt: ‘Clueless’ Ramaphosa’s doubling down on BEE policy will accelerate SA economic disaster
One of South Africa’s top economists, Efficient Group’s Dawie Roodt, tears into what he believes is the sheer economic idiocy expressed by South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in Parliament yesterday. He says the billionaire ANC leader’s redoubling of an approach which has boosted his own bank account but made South…
Prof. William Gumede: Blueprint to reset SA
South Africa needs a new generation of leaders - maybe a non-politician to run the country. That is the view of Professor William Gumede of the School of Governance at Wits University. “I think…that maybe we need less of the hard people…a lot of our leaders, our political leaders, many…
BN Briefing: Cyril doubles down on BEE; Pollak warns delusional ANC; Gumede: new politicians needed
President Ramaphosa defends BEE amid growing economic frustration; Washington insider Joel Pollak unpacks how the Oval Office meeting really played out; and Prof. William Gumede charts a political path forward for South Africa. Internationally, Donald Trump pushes to slash foreign student quotas at Harvard while facing legal setbacks on his…